Battle Cry: Each class has a few, and everyone yells at the beginning of a round.
Empowered Badass Normal: Then Halloween comes around, and everybody starts slinging spells around.
The mercs are none of these and somehow manage to come out on top every time.
Badass Normal: This is a setting with wizards, robots, and Saxton Hale.
Badass Transplant: Their hearts, otherwise they wouldn't survive an ÜberCharge.
Badass Crew: See Band of Brothers below.
Badass Boast: A mercenary holding a melee weapon, facing an enemy, and using the Battle Cry voice command (C -> 2) will give one.
Ax-Crazy: Some more than others, but that's why we love them!.
On the other end of the scale, Demo lives in a mansion, Medic has access to expensive medical equipment and black market organs, and Spy drives a Ferrari and spends thousands of dollars on his suits alone - but they would still be the lowest bidder for their classes.
Mann Co is specifically stated to automatically hire the lowest bidder regardless of ability this is especially obvious in the case in the case of Soldier who is depicted as either homeless or a squatter, and Sniper lives in a camper van.
They're apparently the laughing-stock of the mercenary world.
Army of Thieves and Whores: What we know of most of the histories and personalities of the Mercs suggests that they've made huge mistakes in the past that has resulted in them taking any job they can get.
Soldier and Pyro in particular would qualify as tragic villains, considering their very severe mental illness if the game didn't entirely have it be Played for Laughs. The Mercs are by large violently murderous and property destroying, but they genuinely care about their families and friends, try to avoid implicating civilians in the Gravel Wars, and are universally shown to be much better than either their employers (Who they have no allegiance to, and simply perform the jobs for money.) or the truly repulsive Gray Mann and TFC team.
Anti-Villain / Anti-Hero: Almost universally Noble Demon / Nominal Hero (With the exception of the Medic ).
A Lighter Shade of Grey: When fighting Gray Mann and his private army they are more or less presented as the "heroes" in comparison.
Affably Evil/ Faux Affably Evil: Entirely dependent on whether or not you're on the winning side.
Action Girl: All the named women in the series seem to be tough ladies, perfectly capable of putting a bullet or blow through any skull they feel like.
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